The Wall Avenue Journal reviews Meta is in talks with Disney and A24 to try to safe unique streaming content material for a brand new headset it’s creating. WSJ says Meta’s new system is a glasses-like headset codenamed “Loma,” with an exterior puck you slip into your pocket. Meta is reportedly searching for new and current licensed content material that will be unique to its platform on VR or as timed exclusives.
That puck design appears like Meta’s just lately rumored “Puffin” headset, which is reportedly in improvement and will succeed the Quest 3 and Quest 3S VR headsets. UploadVR described Puffin as a particularly gentle open-periphery headset with a tethered compute puck, and Loma might very properly be Puffin, or develop into it in some unspecified time in the future.
Meta’s personal Andrew “Boz” Bosworth has mentioned publicly that Meta has numerous prototypes in improvement always, together with ones that by no means see the sunshine of day, and after the WSJ printed its report Wednesday, he reposted his assertion about prototypes from final fall that provides “…tales based mostly on chatter about one particular person choice won’t ever give the true image.” Puffin, Loma, or different comparable choices may very well be in one of many prototyping levels Bosworth mentioned with The Verge’s personal Alex Heath final October.
Both method, WSJ mentions Meta’s plan for Loma would set a worth that’s “greater than the $300 beginning worth for a Quest, however lower than the $3,500 base worth of a Imaginative and prescient Professional, in accordance with a number of the folks.”
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